Later years - Bannen

Dazai Osamu's first collection of creative writing. Published by Sunagoya Shobo in June 1936 (Showa 11). It contains 15 short stories using a variety of techniques, with the theme of the struggles of survival of a young man in an age of ideological confusion. "Leaf" is a spiritual autobiography that is a collection of fragments of practice pieces. "Memories" is an autobiographical novel. "Gyofuku-ki", "Chikyu-zu" and "Sarugashima" are fine works that use the traditional short story technique. "Clown's Flower" is an experimental novel that uses the experience of a double suicide as its material, but in which a "person" who is neither a character nor the author confesses his confusion about the meaning and method of creation. "Reverse Cycle" is a series of short stories, and was nominated for the first Akutagawa Prize.

[Kunio Torii]

"'Late Years' (Shincho Bunko)"

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太宰治(だざいおさむ)の第一創作集。1936年（昭和11）6月、砂子屋(すなごや)書房より刊行。思想混乱の時代の青年の生存苦をテーマに、多彩な手法を試みた短編15編を収める。『葉』は習作の断片を集めた精神的自伝。『思ひ出』は自伝的小説。『魚服(ぎょふく)記』『地球図』『猿ヶ島』は伝統的短編小説の手法による佳作。『道化の華』は心中の体験を素材にするが、登場人物でも作者でもない「僕」が創作の意味方法について混迷を告白するという実験的小説。『逆行』は小品を連ねた形式で、第1回芥川(あくたがわ)賞候補作。

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